Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1887-07-27
KANSAS PLUMAGE.

, tauqua assembly In Topeka was very prom
, Using. Nine hundred tents are pitched O.
the grounds, and $4,000 people are ez
pected before the close.
A crippled boy by the name of Radl,
was drowned in the Verdigris river at To
ronto recently. Some mischievious DO,
threw Radly's hat in the river and urget
him to jump in after 1t. He did so ant
was drowned as he could not swim.
The lola Ancient Order of United Work
men lodge has purchased $4,000 brick o
the Knights of Labor brick yards at Neo
sho Falls for their new hall building a
lola.
| The city of Larned, after having passed
some time in considering and testing thu
water works has accepted them.
The pastor of the Unitarian church O
Humboldt, Kansas, Miss Marian Murdoch
has received the degree of bachelor of di
vinity from the Meadville, Pennsylvania
Theological Seminary.
The cider factory at Lawrence, which
furnished employment to a large number Of
hands and paid out thousands of dollar.
annually to the farmers for apples is pre-
pairing to remove to Kansas City.
The fat men of Kingman have organized
mutual admiration society during tine
heated term. No person weighing less
than two hundred can become member Of
this order
1t is reported that business man OF
Dexter shot and killed himself Friday lass.
Dependency over financial trouble was
the cause
Anthony does not lag behind in the gas
well procession. Drilling began Friday at
that place, and work will continue until
the well has at last reached 5000 feet in
depth.
At the Montgomery county fair to be
held at Independence on the 9Th, It'll, Sth
and 9th of September, no strong drinks,
cider not excepted, will not be permitted
to be sold on the grounds, and all gam
bling, dice or gift affairs will be ex-
Guided
The Garden City Herald says: "There
Is more beer being shipped into Garden
City at the present time than at any period
of its history"
The city council of Ell Dorado met in
their new city building for the first time
Wednesday evening.
The Junction City Republican, says an
exchange, is indulging in the Injuries of
81, 600 libel suit.
The police judge of Parsons has been
by the city council on "a charge
Of having changed the record on his docket
in case in which Alice Jeffries and one
Thompson were charged with lewd con-
duct, so as to conceal the real names of the
parties, and receiving bride of ten dollars
for so doing.
The mayor of Emporia has issued
proclamation, offering 500 reward for the
arrest and conviction of any person of the
crime of house burglarizing within the cor
porate limits of the city of Emporia.
There are more towns in Kansas that
have street cars and electric light than any
other state In the union in proportion to
the number of her villages and cities.
The government telegraph wire, says the
Cash City Cashier, 45 miles, more or less,
between Ashland and Dodge is to be sold
It auction at the latter place The iron tele
,raph poles are reserved and the wire is to be |
within five days after the sale. The
roops at camp supply have received orders
o remove the wire between that place and
Ashland which will probably be done
oon.
The county seat fight between the towns
f Rush Center and Lacrosse in Rush
ounty has become so hot that when cir
us agent attempted to bill the latter town
or the appearance of his show In Rush
enter mob was raised and he was driven
rom tho town.
Abilene has new mandatory for max
az of locks which employs twelve men.
Forty people are busy canning vegetables
the Independence canning factory
About 500 Kansas teachers attended the
ational educational association at Chicago.
In Kingman the street railway is going
own rapidly, and electric light poles are
DING up.
Salina claims to have made three-quar-
er million dollars, already put in perman-
mt improvements this year.
Sunday afternoon several boys were
athing In. Little Walnut few miles south
f Leon. One of the number, Hanna by
anne, was taken with cramps A boy,
,harles White, came to his rescue but in
to rescue him was seized
round the waist and pulled under by the
mixing boy and both were drowned. Their
ges were sixteen and eighteen respectively.
The magnitude Of the vegetable canning
usiness can be appreciated from the fact
nat single concern at Lawrence will put
p 600, 900 cans of tomatoes, and has now
eady for shipment $4,000 cans of peas.
aiming factories are increasing in number
nd capacity all over the state.
Kansas is to have four Chautauqua as